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Ranking the Best Men’s Swimmers in the World From 1-25 Looking ahead to yet another Olympic year and putting 2020 in the rearview mirror, Swimming World decided to compile a list of the 25 best swimmers in the world leading into 2021. There was a lot of fast swimming in the first three months of 202...

Pre-World Championships Rankings: The 25 Best Male Swimmers in the World Right Now Since Michael Phelps walked away from swimming for good after the 2016 Olympics, one individual has held the title of "world's best male swimmer" for almost six years. Regular readers of this website will have no trou...

Post Olympics Rankings: Swimming World’s Top 25 Male Swimmers The title of the top female swimmer in the world has shifted on several occasions this year. Katie Ledecky, Ariarne Titmus and Kaylee McKeown have all been considered for that spot throughout the past several months, but at the Olympics, ...

Wang Shun Pops Stellar Time to Claim 200 IM Title at Chinese Nationals; Pan Zhanle Adds Another Crown Reigning Olympic champion Wang Shun produced a sensational performance in the 200-meter individual medley during the seventh night of finals at the Chinese National Championships. The meet is being ...

Tokyo Flashback: Wang Shun Storms to Gold in 200 IM; Michael Andrew Fades to Fifth One year has passed since the Olympic Games, delayed by a year due to COVID-19, unfolded in Tokyo. To celebrate what went down in the Japanese capital, Swimming World is revisiting the championship finals – each on th...

World Championships Day Five Preview and Predictions: Caeleb Dressel Seeking Third 100 Free World Title At the last World Championships in Gwangju, Caeleb Dressel held off top rival Kyle Chalmers for gold in the men's 100 freestyle by just 0.12 while coming up a mere five hundredths short of the wor...

Pan Zhanle Snares 100 Freestyle Title at Chinese National Games; 13-Year-Old Yu Zidi Topped in 200 Fly The performance wasn't one of the finest of his career, but Pan Zhanle did enough in the 100-meter freestyle on Friday night to capture the gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle. The reigning Olymp...

With just about 37 days until swimming begins in Budapest for the 2017 FINA World Championships, South Korean veteran Park Tae Hwan has announced his intentions to go for gold this summer at the World Championships. The 27-year-old told Yonhap News in South Korea that he wanted to win gold at his fi...

Two-time reigning world champ Xu Jiayu picked up a third Olympic berth as he won the 100 back final with a 52.88, which is slower than his best of 51.86 but is quicker than the FINA A cut of 53.85. Xu won silver at the last Olympics in Rio and has won gold at the last two World Championships. His ti...

12-Year-Old Yu Zidi Blasts Incredible 4:35.53 in 400 IM at Chinese Nationals; Wang Shun Sets Championship Record Yu Zidi, the 12-year-old phenom who has attracted the attention of the swimming world for her precocious talent, capped the Chinese National Championships in impressive fashion on Saturda...

In an epic race, Japan broke the Games Record with a 7:05.17, holding off a late charge from China who finished with the silver at 7:05.45. Both teams finished under the Games Record that Japan broke in 2014 at 7:06.74. Katsuhiro Matsumoto was out very fast in the anchor leg to try and swim away fro...

Qin Haiyang, Wang Shun, Yang Junxuan Tested Positive for Clenbuterol Prior to 2021 Positives In April, news emerged that 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive for banned substance trimetazidine months prior to the Tokyo Olympics, but their test results were never publicly disclosed and the athlete...

Qin Haiyang With 58.35 Asian Games Record In 100m Breaststroke Prelims; Ji Yuchan Goes 21.84 In 50 Free Qin Haiyang produced the fifth-fastest 100m breaststroke of his career with a 58.35 Asian Games record on the second day of prelims in Hangzhou, China on Monday. Asian Games results The Chinese sw...

Chinese Doping Controversy Hovering Over Paris Games Over the past three months, a significant doping controversy has dominated headlines thanks to recent revelations that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for trimetazidine (TMZ) months before the Tokyo Olympics but received no sanction. As athlet...

Paris Olympics, Day 7 Finals: Leon Marchand Dominates 200 IM Final For Fourth Gold, Scares World Record With 1:54.06 The ambitious program that Leon Marchand and coach Bob Bowman mapped out for the Paris Olympics, meant that three days would define if the 22-year-old Frenchman vaulted from the best ...

Pan Zhanle Delivers 46.97 100 Free At Asian Games: Wang Shun Goes Third All-Time In 200IM Pan Zhanle and Wang Shun both joined exalted company after they rattled the all-time rankings in the 100 free and 200IM respectively in day one finals at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China. Asian Games results ...

Chinese Teen Wang Haoyu Clocks Sub-48 In 100 Freestyle At Spring Champs; Olympic Titlist Wang Shun Looks Strong Another teenager is making noise in the 100-meter freestyle, as 17-year-old Wang Haoyu broke the 48-second barrier at the Chinese Spring Championships. With the World Championships in Fuku...

'What happened to strict liability?' Adam Peaty Hits Back at WADA over Chinese Doping Olympic gold medalist and world record holder Adam Peaty has hit back at the World Anti-Doping Agency over its handling of the reported 23 positive tests within the Chinese swimming program. Peaty took to X, former...

Wellington’s Lewis Clareburt has tonight smashed his own National record in a stunning Tokyo trial at the 2021 Aon New Zealand Swimming Championships at Auckland’s Sir Owen Glenn National Aquatic Centre. The 21-year-old 2019 World Championship bronze medallist clocked the second fastest time in the....

China was a dominant force in swimming at the 2013 FINA world championships, winning five gold medals to rank second behind the U.S. in terms of gold medals won. The country is sending 51 athletes to next month’s edition in Kazan, Russia, to try and improve on the nine total medals two years ago. Su...